Re: Tomcat configuration question

Try this.. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Richard O. Hammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to get a shorter URL to work in an application deployed in
> Tomcat 5.5.  I am creating a web application in Eclipse 3.3.2 and exporting
> a WAR from Eclipse into Tomcat 5.5 (which implements Servlet 2.4).
>
> Here is the tomcat/conf/server.xml file I am using, shortened to show just
> what I think may be important:
>
>  <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
>  <Service name="Catalina">
>    <Connector port="80"
>               maxThreads="15" minSpareThreads="1" maxSpareThreads="2"
>               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="443" acceptCount="6"
>               connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
>
>    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
>      <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" />
>
>      <Host name="myDomain.com" appBase="/myDomain/app"
>       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
>
>        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
>                 directory="myLogs"  prefix="access." suffix=".log"
>                 pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
>        <Context path="" docBase="." />
>      </Host>
>    </Engine>
>  </Service>
> </Server>
>
>
> When I copy the file named "Apln.war" into my appBase="/myDomain/app"
> directory, Tomcat unpacks and deploys the application just fine into a new
> directory named /myDomain/app/Apln .  It all works.  But I'm fussy about the
> URL.
>
> In order to access the pages in a web browser, I have to include "Apln" in
> the URL, like this:
>  http://myDomain.com/Apln/fun.jsp
> How can I get that "Apln/" out of the URL?  I want the URL to be:
>  http://myDomain.com/fun.jsp
>
> Other information that may be relevant:
>  - I am not using any other XML file to declare the Context element, since I
> guess that should not be necessary, although the Tomcat documents frequently
> remind me that I could do that.
>  - The WEB-INF/web.xml file has only the few automatically created elements.
>  I have not edited it.  And I don't think it matters for this issue.
>  - Note that the appBase for Host myDomain.com is an absolute path, outside
> the default appBase="webapps".  I don't think that should matter.
>
> I have tried setting the Context docBase attribute to an absolute path
> outside the /myDomain/app directory, since I find the following instruction,
> "When using automatic deployment, the docBase defined by an XML Context file
> should be outside of the appBase directory."
> in this section of the documentation
> <http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment>.
> But that doesn't work for me.  I don't understand how that could work, since
> the automatic unpacking of the war file takes place in the same directory
> where the war is dropped, in the /myDomain/app directory.
>
> Thanks for any help that can be given,
> Rich Hammer
>
>
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